<p>a weighted GPA is normally on the same scale as an unweighted one. On the common app, if you choose to put your weighted GPA, you select the same scale as if you were putting your unweighted.
Think of it like this: if you have a 3.8 unweighted but a 4.3 weighted, a 4.3 shows that you are going above and beyond. A 4.3 out of 5 doesn’t reflect this. A weighted GPA is on the same scale as the unweighted, but you can do even better than the normal maximum. </p>
<p>This is just what our college counselors told us. They said if we put our weighted GPA, we still put the scale as 4.</p>